It first hit me during A Quiet Place, as John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s fictional kids quietly played a board game by firelight on a reclaimed wood table, a vertical garden growing out of planters on the wall. I had noticed earlier how nicely Krasinski stayed dressed in the film’s post-apocalypse, in unfussy but…

Conventional wisdom holds that the best movies of any given year tend to arrive sometime between Labor Day and Christmas—those few weeks annually and unofficially designated as “awards season.” But while the major studios and their indie subsidiaries do tend to hold their big prestige titles until at least early…

Reminding us that there’s no thoughtful, intimate concept for a genre movie that won’t be met with raucous, desperate cries for “More!”—provided that there’s still money somewhere on the table, at least—Paramount has already announced that it’s begun development on a sequel to John Krasinski’s surprise hit horror film …

It’s a true testament to Dwayne Johnson’s charisma that even when he’s being totally cocky, it still comes across as charming. (Even the official Doom twitter account played along when he shit-talked the movie on Twitter.) Now Johnson has something new to endearingly brag about on social media, as his new film Rampage

Much of the hubbub about A Quiet Place, John Krasinski’s sonically adventurous (and commercially successful) new horror movie, centers around the film’s use of silence. And while the actors do an admirable job of conveying how the weight of that silence changes the way they move and interact, it’s the tiny details of…

On Wednesday’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, newly minted, unlikely horror movie top dog John Krasinski played at some Jim Halpert-style aw-shucks humility. Host Meyers read off a selection of the appreciative tweets from celebrity fans of Krasinski’s new film (as co-writer, star, and director), A Quiet Place. Coming…

Newly minted blockbuster horror director John Krasinski isn’t resting on the laurels of his sudden success story A Quiet Place; Variety reports that the former The Office star has already lined up his next directing project, and it sounds like he’s heading to space. Life On Mars—not to be confused with the two TV…

In addition to starring, John Krasinski directed and co-wrote A Quiet Place, a clever, ultra-tense new horror flick that’s currently making a lot of noise at the box office. But, as solid as Krasinski is as a struggling father in a lethal landscape where sound can be a death sentence, it’s been hard for fans of The…

A Quiet Place has turned out to not only be what John Krasinski’s career needed to get out of its post-Office slump, but also what the American moviegoing public needed to get their butts off the couch and into the theater during an unseasonably cold spring weekend. Theater attendance was up 24 percent overall this…

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Welcome back to Film Club. This week, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss the nifty new sci-fi horror film A Quiet Place. Directed by and starring Office alum John Krasinski, the film follows a family trying to survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth crawling with blind monsters.…

In the ingenious suspense contraption A Quiet Place, Earth has been overrun by blind beasties from above: a species of fast, spindly, vaguely reptilian monsters who can’t see their prey but can sure as hell hear it, pouncing with scary velocity at any sound louder than a handclap. That’s a drag for humanity,…

It was the opening night of films here at the South By Southwest Conference And Festivals, starting with a horror film that contained one hell of a hook. Actor-director John Krasinski took the stage after seeing his movie open SXSW, and his first tongue-in-cheek words were, “Why did someone make this?”

John Krasinski’s supernatural thriller A Quiet Place already has a good hook in the form of unseen creatures who kill people when they make noise—as seen in the movie’s short Super Bowl teaser—but this expanded trailer adds an extra scary angle with the reveal that Emily Blunt’s character is pregnant. When this family…

The Super Bowl is an event that is defined by spectacle, with everything being bigger and louder than every other thing, but this trailer for John Krasinski’s sci-fi thriller A Quiet Place offered a nice change of pace from the patriotic songs at the start of the game—at least until that kid set off his very dangerous…

Despite having presumably seen what happened in the aftermath of Gigli, By The Sea, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and any number of other films made by real-life couples that broke up shortly after their movie came out, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski apparently have enough confidence in the strength of their relationship…